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Public Discourse in a Peekaboo World

On January 27, 2024September 24, 2026 By Steve SampsonIn Words to the Wise1 Comment

Much of what we perceive about the world now reaches us through a multiplatform game of informational peekaboo–and we rarely stop to think about the weirdness of this fact.

Who Needs this Learning Stuff?

On September 1, 2016November 20, 2017 By Steve SampsonIn Fatherly AdviceLeave a comment

Dear Daughters, As you went back to school this week, one of you posed the question kids have been asking since the dawn of educational time: "when am I ever going to use this stuff?" You had in mind the contents of your lessons: the facts of history and the functions of algebra. But when …

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